El dissabte, 16 de novembre de 2019, a les 10:14:15 CET, Ben Cooksley va escriure: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 3:58 PM Alexander Potashev <aspotas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > пт, 15 нояб. 2019 г. в 22:05, Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org>: > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 3:27 AM Alexander Potashev <aspotas...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > пт, 15 нояб. 2019 г. в 15:46, Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org>: > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 11:37 PM Alexander Potashev > > > > > <aspotas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > сб, 9 нояб. 2019 г. в 02:51, Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org>: > > > > > > > In the category of no longer in use, we have the compatibility > > > > > > > generator for the kde_projects.xml file. This was introduced when > > > > > > > we > > > > > > > shutdown Redmine/Chiliproject and migrated to Phabricator, as a > > > > > > > way of > > > > > > > keeping services that needed to discover a list of KDE Projects > > > > > > > functional. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > As we've since migrated to using YAML files within the > > > > > > > sysadmin/repo-metadata repository for both the CI System and > > > > > > > kdesrc-build (and with LXR using kdesrc-build to do it's code > > > > > > > checkouts) there shouldn't to my knowledge be anything still > > > > > > > relying > > > > > > > on this (aside from perhaps scripty). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd therefore like to shut this generator down as well, along > > > > > > > with the > > > > > > > compaibility redirector running at projects.kde.org (given that > > > > > > > it has > > > > > > > been some time since we were using that site, and many projects > > > > > > > have > > > > > > > moved around in the virtual structure since then, making the > > > > > > > redirects > > > > > > > it is able to offer useless) > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > > > > > > > I am developing a new version of the "opensrc" plugin for Lokalize > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > and it currently depends on kde_projects.xml. Of course I can add > > > > > > new > > > > > > code to scan the Git repo instead of just fetching kde_projects.xml, > > > > > > however it would be more complicated. > > > > > > > > > > https://projects.kde.org/api/doc/ specifically deals with this problem > > > > > by abstracting the repo away behind a micro service. > > > > > > > > This looks like another view of the data available in > > > > kde_projects.xml, however the API is very limited. For example I can't > > > > query repo descriptions using this API. Thus not helpful. > > > > > > > > However if we were going to kill kde_projects.xml, are you sure > > > > projects.kde.org/api/ would be still available and not shut down as > > > > well? > > > > > > The API that Harald mentions is based off the YAML files, and is not > > > reliant on the legacy kde_projects.xml file. > > > > I can implement kde_projects.xml or a modernized version of it as part > > of projects.kde.org/api/. Does this sound like a good idea? > > > > We don't need to support the exact same XML format, so I would prefer > > a JSON listing all projects with all their properties, at something > > like GET https://projects.kde.org/api/v1/export or may be return all > > project properties in GET https://projects.kde.org/api/v1/projects > > I'll leave it to Harald to comment on whether he'd be happy having > additional capabilities in the Projects Microservice API he maintains. > (Harald, I assume it's only requirement is a copy of the > sysadmin/repo-metadata repository locally, and it doesn't require the > actual Git repositories?) > > We really should avoid continuing to keep legacy endpoints alive > though (as it is just shifting the maintenance effort of porting away > from it further down the road), especially for something that is going > to end up on end user systems.
Wait, are you saying we shouldn't be using that endpoint to solve our dependency on kde_projects.xml on scripty either? I just asked Adrián to have a look at it, since it seemed easier than having to worry about downloading and keeping an up to date copy of another repo. Cheers, Albert > > On that note, should you be using QNetworkAccessManager, please ensure > you forcibly and explicitly enable handling of redirects. > > > > > -- > > Alexander Potashev > > Cheers, > Ben >
